Qlik Sense April 2020 – What’s New?

With this year’s April version of its product
portfolio, Qlik is launching the first synchronized release for its data
analytics and data integration platforms.
The Qlik Sense analysis platform has also been expanded again –
especially in the areas of visualization and dashboards.

The new
releases contain some general innovations that are designed to ease the start
and use of Qlik Sense for customers. For example, a new Qlik Sense Enterprise
package offers a “Only-SaaS” option to make management more flexible
and lower the total cost of ownership. Users of QlikView will also be supported
in the adoption of Qlik Sense by Qlik’s new “Analytics Modernization Program”.
This can be used, for example, to automate the publishing of QlikView apps on
the Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS Hub and facilitate the parallel use of both
products.

Improved visualizations, dashboards and pivot
tables

To further
enhance the user experience with Qlik Sense, the platform was also equipped
with several new visualization and dashboarding capabilities in the April
release. The new version includes, among other things, an organizational chart
to display maps in a hierarchical structure, relative modifiers to simply
display the percentage of total in a measure and new “sheet triggers”
that allow certain actions to be added to a worksheet, which are triggered when
the sheet is opened.

Qlik Sense April 2020 has also been enhanced with new KPI font options (fixed, fluid and responsive), new map chart formatting options for color and size by measure, increased limit of items (50.000) on point and area map layers and the option to exclude Qlik logos on maps and default measures in custom tooltips.

Pivot tables now also offer the ability to save the current layout state, sort by the first measure and freeze the first column.

New features for pivot tables in Qlik Sense April 2020 (Source: Qlik)

Further optimizations – also in Qlik NPrinting

The new
release also includes improved navigation for greater ease of use, more
connectors and new ways to share and manage content across the data analytics platform.

The NPrinting reporting platform was also enhanced with new functionality with the April releases. This allows emails generated from publishing tasks to be sent to dynamic recipient lists (via TO-, CC- and BCC-field). The corresponding recipient lists can be created directly in NPrinting as new fields or dragged from Qlik variables. An overview of the most important new features and innovations in the Qlik April 2020 releases can be found in the following video: